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Age 6-8 Year at a Glance

The Age 6-8 level of Beyond the Page is structured around four 9-week concepts. Each of these concepts is made up of three language arts units and three science and social studies units. Each unit contains about 10 lessons and a final project.

You will do two lessons each day: one in science and social studies and one in language arts. Start with the first concept. When you finish it move on to the second.

Here is a list of the concepts in the order you will complete them along with the associated books.

Science and Social Studies Units

Language Arts Units

Concept 1: Community

Summary of Skills | Table of Contents
Unit 1: Communities Around the World
If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
Unit 2: Citizenship
Home by Jeannie Baker
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
Unit 3: Plants and Animals
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

Concept 2: Matter and Movement

Summary of Skills | Table of Contents
Unit 1: States of Matter
Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss
What Is the World Made Of? by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
What's the Matter in Mr. Whiskers' Room by Michael Elsohn Ross
Unit 2: Earth
Everybody Needs a Rock by Byrd Baylor
You're Aboard Spaceship Earth by Patricia Lauber
Unit 3: Balance and Motion
Forces Make Things Move by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Move It! Motion, Forces and You by Adrienne Mason
What Is a Balance Scale? by Moving Beyond the Page

Concept 3: Culture

Summary of Skills | Table of Contents
Unit 1: Geography
The Armadillo from Amarillo by Lynne Cherry
The Seven Continents by Wil Mara
The Usborne Children's Picture Atlas by Ruth Brocklehurst, Linda Edwards
Unit 2: People Around the World
Africa is Not a Country by Margy Burns Knight
Christmas Around the World by Mary D. Lankford
Explore Asia by Bobby Kalman
Explore South America by Bobbie Kalman
The Usborne Children's Picture Atlas by Ruth Brocklehurst and Linda Edwards
Three Young Pilgrims by Cheryl Harness
Unit 3: Stories Around the World
A Child's Calendar by John Updike
Paul Bunyan by Steven Kellogg
The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo
The Irish Cinderlad by Shirley Climo
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema
Yeh-Shen by Ai-Ling Louie

Concept 4: Relationships

Summary of Skills | Table of Contents
Unit 1: Living Things and Their Environment
Does the Sun Sleep? by Martha E.H. Rustad
Life Cycles: River by Sean Callery
Sunshine Makes the Seasons by Franklyn M. Branley
Unit 2: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
Unit 3: Connecting with the Past
National Geographic Readers: Ellis Island by Elizabeth Carney
O, Say Can You See? America's Symbols, Landmarks, and Important Words by Sheila Keenan
The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
Your Life as a Settler in Colonial America by Thomas Kingsley Troupe

Math

Summary of Skills | Table of Contents
Unit 1: Number Sense
More or Less by Stuart J. Murphy
Unit 2: Addition and Subtraction/Fact Power!
Mission Addition by Loreen Leedy
Subtraction Action by Loreen Leedy
Unit 3: Geometry
Grandfather Tang's Story by Ann Tompert
The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns
Unit 4: Place Value I
Earth Day - Hooray! by Stuart J. Murphy
Unit 5: Measurement: Length
How Long or How Wide: A Measuring Guide by Brian P. Cleary
Unit 6: Place Value II
[none]
Unit 7: Telling Time
Telling Time by Jules Older
Unit 8: Money
The Coin Counting Book by Roxanne Lanczak Williams
Unit 9: Data and Graphing
Lemonade For Sale by Stuart J. Murphy
Unit 10: Skills Review
The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns

Reading

Summary of Skills | Table of Contents
Unit 1: Semester 1
[none]
Unit 2: Semester 2
A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni (kit)
Book of Poems and Verses by Moving Beyond the Page (kit)
Frog and Toad All Year by Arnold Lobel (kit)
Mouse Soup by Arnold Lobel (kit)
Penny and Her Marble by Kevin Henkes (kit)